martedì 15 gennaio 2013

CUSTOM 1970 VW DUNE BUGGY X MOJAVE

Mazda design director Derek Jenkins lives and breathes design. Jenkins shares flicks of his after-work, weekend passion— a vintage-future VW dune buggy that he constructed in his garage. Jenkins, an Orange County native, grew up on the beach, surfing and tinkering with these sort of sand crawlers. He took on his first project at 14. He saved up $1000 from an odd job repairing surfboards to buy his first project car, a Volkswagen Thing, and spent the next two years getting it road ready.

California car culture of the 1980s was on the threshold of the tuner explosion — Volkswagen GTIs, Honda Civics and Mazdas. But a further stipulation meant that for Jenkins, a surfboard had to fit in the back or on top. “In Huntington Beach your car of choice has to be appropriate to surfing.” While Jenkins has moved on to considerably more advanced design studio, he remains devoted to his garage and surfboards in his spare time.